Don't know why there are so many negative reviews on survey police. Some of the reviews say things that aren't true like PayPal isn't available, there is no way to contact customer service, you won't get any points (not even 5) for 90% of the surveys you try. Others I just don't get why the review is so negative a half star review said "I usually make 200 points a day in about 12 minutes on Univox". Don't get why you'd rank it so low if you're making $2 in 12 minutes. That's far better than any other survey site I ever used. Most pay nothing when you're disqualified and like 50 cents for a 15-20 minute survey or $1.00 for a 30-45 minute long one when you do complete one.

I went to Survey Police and read the reviews as far back as July 2015. Didn't you leave a review for Univox since then? If you did, I didn't see it. Survey Police isn't still refusing reviews due to that contest fiasco, are they?

I feel they were exaggerated reviews or some companies get their stuff to pose good reviews to boost their ratings. I take all such reviews with a pinch of salt. Can't see how one can earn $50/- monthly doing surveys.

I don't check reviews because I go by how a survey company works for me. Univox has been fair, generally timely with payouts. They get glitches occasionally, mostly when they are updating the site. Not making a living from it, just a few extra bucks for fun money. And that's just what I want.

I think $50 monthly can be done. I fact, I cashed out here for $25 on the 11th of July, and I'm about 50 points from cashing out again, which I will have by tomorrow. But that is with the help of winning contests and winning the Sweepstakes drawing. Otherwise, I qualify for so few surveys, it would take me forever to cash out here!

I'm not the most successfull panel member by far but I have succeeded $50 a month here. Just this year I have cashed out over 50 for 3 of the 7 months. The highest for me being 90 and some change. Like

I could understand how someone who was averaging 200 points a day would post a negative review if it took them several hours to get the 200 points but not when it takes 12 minutes. Other survey sites I've tried you'd be lucky to make that in a hour.

You do have way better odds of winning the sweepstake contest vs. the surprize me because only members who complete a survey through the contest link are entered and it sems like most members don't do their surveys using the link.

I stopped doing my surveys through the link for a while but started using it again a few days ago.

I did an Excel log of my day on Friday. In it, I recorded my survey number the points and LOI, where I screened out, points awarded, length of time it actually took, etc.

Then I tallied it all up.

Out of 31 surveys that was available to me for the whole 24 hours (10 of that I was sleeping)... I was able to complete 2 surveys which took 49 minutes combined (20 and 29 minutes).

The rest of the 29 surveys was a bust:

1 disappeared on a refresh
3 redirected me to another survey or back to My Surveys
so I had 26 surveys for 5 points (all took under 5 minutes of my time each (most mere seconds) - answering screeners and page loading times - the longest DQ was 18 pages long).

I made 470 points (130 for 5-pointers) and the amount of time it took was 88 minutes.

So if I take out the 49 minutes I was actually doing "paid" surveys... the amount of time it took to do 26 5-pointers was 39 minutes. Call me crazy BUT... $1.30 for 39 minutes of work is a little low on the totem pole. HOWEVER, that wasn't work - that was answering redundant questions about my age, gender, race, etc... so I call it even, not a lot of work for those 130 points, so not a lot of pay.

What miffs me is when I looked at my "survey information" part and I noticed I had the misfortune of a lot of redundant surveys. Air Purifiers (I don't have one and I didn't lie and say I did) Survey's was given to me FOUR times (they are 4 of my 5-pointers). Now, don't get me wrong I got 20 cents for my time, but it's aggravating to get the same ones over and over again.

The other miff was the 13 surveys that as soon as I clicked Take A Survey, I got a message saying I wasn't a fit, but got my 5 points. Those, yeah they take 0 minutes to do, I got .65 for my troubles, but that's aggravating too. It's like dangling something in front of someone and as soon as they reach for it, you pull it away. Disheartening!

So if that person did the 200 points for several hours, that's rough, but if they did it and it was like my day Friday (except for the completed) then I can feel the pain, yes it's 200 points but it's an aggravating two dollars.

But I wouldn't call Univox a scam just because some things around here are "aggravating".

They said on average everyday 200 points in 12 minutes, they must be eliminated right away on almost all their surveys to get that amount of points that quickly. Which can be frustrating but that's $10 a hour so it's not too bad.
I was also disqualified from at least 4-5 surveys asking about air purifiers the other day.

I'm a member of Survey Police but don't bother reading their reviews. I just post on the forum. Reviews really don't mean much of anything since some people will do well on surveys yet others do poorly so reviews don't mean much of anything.

I agree when it comes to online reviews you have to take them with a grain of salt. Especially reviews of survey sites because how many surveys you receive and qualify for are based on demographics. Univox has a low ranking on SP but I think it's the best survey site I've ever used and barely use any other sites anymore.
I brought it up because I've been seeing members mention the negative reviews in comments on the shoutmix and surprize me/sweepstake contest page recently.

I only do surveys from univox and none others. Only won once from sweepstake which as hugely surprizing for me as I thought that survey would only give me 60 pts or something like that and to get 300 on top of that was truly marvellous. I've only ever log into survey police once to give a positive review for univox. Besides, i'm busy at work, been asked to increase my hours to help out.

I do surveys at a lot of different sites. My problem here is going through all those surveys before actually doing one. Yes you get 5 points when you get thrown out but when you do this on other sites the fingers get tired. So I have brought that up here. If I thought the place was real bad, I wouldn't come here at all. Maybe someone can help me because I really don't see the point of shoutmix. Maybe I'm using it wrong because the few times I tried to help there I don't know if it helped anyone or not.

I think shoutmix is nice to have, for some problems it's a lot quicker and easier to ask about on Shoutmix vs. sending Customer Service a message. The problem is most members don't scroll down to read previous posts and a few seem like they don't even read any.

No you don't get a notification, and I'm sure you've helped some people on shoutmix. Sometimes people will thank you but most of the time on shoutmix they just never respond back (unless they have something negative to say)

I would actually just prefer to have the ability to toggle shoutmix off/on when I want to. That way if I need help I can turn it on, and ask it... but other than that I can leave it off so I don't have to see the stupidity that goes on.

Hope you weren't thinking I was meaning the legit ones. I wasn't! I was meaning the jerks on there that ask for help, get it, and then don't listen or complain about someone helping them. Or the ones that just post random things, or mean things, or just Hello and nothing else.

No what I was saying is I thought maybe I didn't understand how shoutmix worked because I could never find out if my helping actually got to the person that asked a question. I know what you mean because I have seen comments there that shouldn't be there but questions there should be a way to see if the person asking did get the help that was needed without having to scroll down who knows how many questions and answers.

Not to change the subject but I still wonder why Univox stopped sending me email notification. I have everything checked off and I don't receive anything in email. I use to but not the last couple of weeks.

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